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How to force excel to open CSV file in UTF-8 Format with Flow

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Hello how is it possible to force Excel onpen CSV in UTF-8 Format 

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  • manuelstgomes Profile Picture
    6,625 on at

    HI @dalacarelia_196 

     

    Am I right to assume that you're talking about the Power Automate desktop? 

     

    Cheers
    Manuel

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  • dalacarelia_196 Profile Picture
    648 on at

    Sorry yes with Power Automate

  • manuelstgomes Profile Picture
    6,625 on at

    Hi @dalacarelia_196 

     

    I don't think there's a way to do it, but you can automate the process of opening Excel, import data, etc. I found this tutorial that explains the buttons to press, so you can try to do it in PAD:

    https://www.itg.ias.edu/content/how-import-csv-file-uses-utf-8-character-encoding-0

     

    To be honest, I'm not a bit PAD expert, so probably someone else here has an excellent workaround for this.

     

    Cheers
    Manuel

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  • 8i5i8 Profile Picture
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    That article refers to excel 2007 so not especially helpful. 

    Did you get a solution to this issue? It seems the default read file from onedrive task assume csv are ansi text rather than utf-8, which causes issues with accents and other special characters.

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